About the Artist and Bio

Artist Bio (last updated Sep 26, 2018)

Cheryl Bailey is an award winning Toronto-born Contemporary Landscape artist from Oakville Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists. Cheryl studies regularly with John Leonard RCA at the Etobicoke Art Group studio and at Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design(HSAD).

The McMichael Canadian Collection has hosted 4 group exhibitions in which Cheryl participated. In 2018, Cheryl is participating for the fifth time in the Ontario Provincial Touring Exhibition "Progressions VIII".

Upcoming in 2020 is an exciting multimedia solo exhibition at the Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke.

Cheryl was an invited artist at the Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery "Collectively Inspired" exhibition in summer 2017. In February 2016, Dragonfly Arts on Broadway in Orangeville Ontario held Cheryl's first solo exhibition. She is on the board of the Etobicoke Art Group.

Artist Statement

My abstracted landscape paintings express heartfelt ideas with complete authenticity. To convey, in imagery, my love of the Canadian landscape, I use uncomplicated flattened shapes which are generally instantly recognizable and soul satisfying. An interactive and playful textured surface and an unusual unifying black are used to support my creation of powerful, adventurous, often luminous interpretations of landscape.